Say I'm working with a system that allows async, nonblocking operations. If I queue up a set of those operations and specify their result buffer references:
nonblocking_write( message, write_buffer ...

Regardless of library, language, or spec, asynchronous send/write operations make sense to me, because code later in the execution path may not have any dependency upon the success or failure of the ...

I have a system which has 5 services. Each are run in a separate process. They resemble an assembly line, in the sense that they mostly process messages in the same order 1->2->3->4->5, however it's ...

I've recently started to do some more complicated programming with network-related work on iOS with Swift.
This introduced a lot of asynchronous code not only in networking but also some exchange of ...

First of all, sorry if this post is too long. I'll start with the…
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Is it generally advisable or a good idea to design an interface property as asynchronous simply because we cannot be ...

I am looking to implement the callback pattern with error handling such that error is caught and pass to the callback code with the response. Since I am using .NET 3.5, I cant use Task (TAP) pattern ...

I have a flight planning system in .NET/SQL Server which needs to perform several validation checks. This needs to work on both a windows and a web client. Currently the checks run synchronously but ...

I'm searching for a suitable way to make web requests to databases and display results in real-time. The data will be used in an interface for staff, so there cannot be any blocking or lag as time is ...

I'm looking for concepts, approaches or even Framework/libraries to help me synchronize state reliably from web UI to a third Party Service.
For example: creating a JavaScript irc Client ui you need ...

I'm using an offline application's javascript API and I'd like to know if I can use deferred objects to handle the callbacks. The API calls do not use HTTP, the calls are to and from the applications ...

Turned out, this question is not easy to formulate for me, but let's try.
In Android, pretty much any UI object depends on a Context, and has defined lifetime. Android can also destroy and recreate UI ...

I am working with a multithreaded homegrown multi-module app in my new job. We use the the Thrift protocol to communicate RPC calls between different stand-alone applications in a distributed system. ...

Lately I can't seem to get enough of the amazing async-await pattern of C# 5.0. Where have you been all my life?
I'm absolutely thrilled with the simple syntax, but I'm having one small difficulty. ...

Asynchronous programming seems to be getting quite popular these days. One of the most quoted advantages is performance gain from removing operations that block threads. But I also saw people saying ...

At one of the DevDays conferences a presenter said that Workflow Foundation isn't just for applications that require persistence, but they can make it easier to write and maintain Async WCF code and ...

I'm learning NodeJS and just wanted to clarify something. In several introductory tutorials and books so far, very early on they've described Node's "non-blocking" architecture - or rather that it's ...

Are there any common patterns or general guidance I can learn from for how to design a client/server system where the both the client and server must maintain some kind per-client session state?
I've ...

Stumbled upon this post that talks about making async web requests.
Now simplicity aside, if in real world, all you do is make an async request and wait for it in the very next line, isn't that the ...

our team is mantaining and developing a .NET web service written in C#. We have stress tested the web service's farm and we have evidence that the actual architecture doesn't scale well, as the number ...